Reviewed in Planet by Anne Cluysenaar

This is a richly varied collection, remarkable both for its sense of vast perspectives within immediate (often homely) experience and its visceral evocation of current events. The role of art in our lives is another recurring theme, from the first poem, remembering the childhood impact of words and images in a Holy Bible, to the last, which imagines that, after some planetary flood (floods haunt this collection), the first colour to return "will be gold / one dip from Bellini's brush, / Cinquecento nativities..."